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...Italian Senator, gave to the Pope. His Holiness now can radio-talk directly with his recently renovated summer home at Castel Gandolfo 14 miles away, and no one can listen in. Cost of operating the equipment is no more than the cost of keeping a 30-watt incandescent bulb alight...
Another Language (by Rose Frankerr Arthur J. Beckhard, producer) ably presents a frieze of commonplace figures, the Hallam family, against the background of New York's West Side. A shamming old mother has gained complete ascendancy over three of her four sons, the kind of men who never alight from a taxi without grumbling that they "might as well have bought the cab." But one son (Glenn Anders of Hotel Universe and Strange Interlude) is not quite so tractable. This reaction is due to the fact that he married a girl who dabbles in sculpture and wants something more...
...back to their homes last week in a thick and pungent fog. Economists did not mind the smell. In an effort to reduce Brazil's enormous stocks of coffee, a mountain of 530,000 bags of low grade coffee was piled up, soaked with oil and set alight. All day long the coffee volcano roared into the sky, darkened the heavens with the smell of a billion spoiled breakfasts...
Hunting over Sequoia National Park. Calif, for a stream upon which to alight an eared grebe spied a fine dark river with curiously straight and even banks. The grebe swooped, skidded down upon a wet. hard highway, died a few days later despite ministrations by kind park employes...
Lakes & Streams. When New Jersey's State Board of Commerce & Navigation ruled that aircraft must not alight on Jersey's inland waters, loud was the protest of the men who build, sell and operate seaplanes and amphibians (TIME, Sept. 29). H. Stewart McDonald Jr., counsel for the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, and John J. Redfield for Curtiss-Wright Corp. confronted the Board last fortnight, wrung from it a modification of the ruling in principle: Instead of being a blanket restriction, the rule shall apply only to Lake Hopatcong. Each application for water landings elsewhere will be considered...